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Pulitzer Prizes launch redesigned web site

Welcome! Our new site improves access to a rich storehouse of information on the best in American newspaper journalism and the arts from 1917 to the present. Among the site’s features:

  • A timeline, composed of iconic Pulitzer images, that swiftly connects to winners and finalists through the decades.
  • Information on the history and administration of the Prizes.
  • Details on how to enter the competition.

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2008 Pulitzer Prize luncheon ceremony

The 2008 Pulitzer Prizes were presented at a luncheon at Columbia University on May 29, 2008.

View the 2008 Pulitzer Prize luncheon slide show
—photos by Eileen Barroso

The slide show features photos of all winners receiving their Prizes, candid pictures from the reception preceding the luncheon and a group photo of the winners.


Watch video of Jay Harris's luncheon remarks

Harris, Pulitzer Board co-chair, welcomes luncheon guests and explains why the work of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners "makes me very hopeful" about the future. Harris, former publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, is now director of The Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California.

Watch video of the presentation of the prizes by Rich Oppel

Oppel, Pulitzer Board co-chair and editor of the Austin (TX) American-Statesman bestows the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes on the winners in journalism and the arts.

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How Pulitzer Prize winners are chosen

For Pulitzer board members, the hope is that winning a prize "will be a beginning, not a final wreath on a winner's head."

Read the full column by Richard Oppel, Pulitzer Board co-chair, published June 8, 2008 in the American-Statesman, Austin, TX.

Joyce Dehli joins the Pulitzer Prize Board

Joyce Dehli, vice president for news for Lee Enterprises, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.

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